Agredazywczuk, Phillip; Ouma, Turry; Barthel, Matti; Otinga, Abigael; Njoroge, Ruth; Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus; Daelman, Roxanne; Hickman, Jonathan; Ibrahim, Wanyama; Laub, Moritz; Leitner, Sonja; Shumba, Armwell; Tully, Katherine; Wachiye, Sheila; Zheng, Jinsen; Bauters, Marijn; Kiese, Ralf; Cardinael, Rémi; Obozinski, Guillaume; Six, Johan; Harris, Eliza: Nitrous oxide emissions from African Grasslands [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987305 (dataset in review), In: Agredazywczuk, P et al.: Nitrous oxide emissions across Sub-Saharan Africa: meta-analysis and data-driven modelling [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987298 (dataset in review)
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Funding:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), grant/award no. 200021_207348: Combining measurements, modelling and machine learning to improve N2O accounting for sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -2.692727 * Median Longitude: 37.485983 * South-bound Latitude: -3.548373 * West-bound Longitude: 35.430000 * North-bound Latitude: -0.280000 * East-bound Longitude: 38.226929
Date/Time Start: 2017-01-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-08-11T00:00:00
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
5175 data points
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